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U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson’s (CA-5) bipartisan provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense (DOD) to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States, from articles, materials, or supplies that are 100 percent of grown, produced or manufactured in the United States, was again passed by the House of Representatives.
Thompson’s provision passed as part of H.R. 2397, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014.
The provision was previously included in H.R. 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014, which passed the House of Representatives on June 14, 2013, but has not yet been considered by the Senate.
“Our men and women in uniform should never fight under an American flag made overseas,” said Thompson. “I am going to keep working to make sure that every American flag the DOD buys is made in America, by American workers with American products.”
Specifically, Thompson’s provision applies the Berry Amendment to the American Flag.
The Berry Amendment, originally passed in 1941, prohibits DOD funds from being used to acquire food, clothing, military uniforms, fabrics, stainless steel, and hand or measuring tools that are not grown or produced in the United States, except in rare exceptions.
Thompson’s provision applies the same rules for the DOD’s acquisition of American Flags, which previously were not listed as a covered item.
Precedent already exists for such a provision. Currently, the Department of Veterans Affairs is required to only purchase U.S.-made American Flags for serivcemembers’ funerals.
H.R. 2397 passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 315-109. The legislation will now go to the Senate for approval.
Congressman Mike Thompson represents California’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes all or part of Contra Costa, Lake, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Bar Association has published its Web site at www.lakecobar.com .
“The site is designed to allow the public to search for a local attorney by name or by practice area,” said Mary Heare Amodio, president of the local bar association. “Attorneys listed on the site are members of the local association who have provided information to the bar for publication.”
Amodio said Lake County has less than 90 active attorneys – including several who practice outside of the county – registered as active members of the State Bar of California.
The association tries to provide Mandatory Continuing Education to those attorneys as well as an occasional social event to increase interaction among members of the bar, she said.
“We hope that the online 'Find an Attorney' feature will replace the informal referral service the bar president has provide to consumers in the past,” Amodio said. “While larger county bar associations such as Sonoma, Marin, Solano and Contra Costa counties have a formal lawyer referral service that helps link consumers with attorneys in a particular practice area, the Lake County Bar is just too small to have that type of service.”
Amodio added, “Recommendations and suggestions that would help the bar improve the Web site and information that consumers believe should be a part of the Web site are welcome. Comments can be sent through the 'contact us' box on the Web site itself.”
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